Introduction

Pitchfork Review's contributing editor Isabella Herrera recently wrote a piece that dove into how hateful rhetoric and political action is affecting queer nightlife. There have been almost 500 bills introduced since the beginning of this year, with 161 protests or threats targeting drag events from early last year until this spring. The big one that people talk about that is still short of the pulse shooting seven years ago in Orlando is upstairs lounge in New Orleans in 1973. They burned it down. I mean, you're talking like story hours in libraries. And so one positive thing that happened earlier in June in Tennessee, the drag band was struck down and found unconstitutional. This is really crazy out there right now with regards to